ObjectiveExploration of biology and liberal arts through instruction, undergraduate research, and service

EducationPh.D. Zoology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998 Dissertation: Evaluation of two in vitro ciliated epithelial systems, dog trachea and frog palate, for potential as screens for acute inhalation toxicityM.S. Zoology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1994 Thesis: The functional and ultrastructural effects of the organophosphorous insecticides DursbanTM and LorsbanTM on the ciliated epithelium of the frog palate in vitroB.S. Zoology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1992

Itawamba Community College (1997-1999) General Biology Major’s Biology Laboratory General Zoology Environmental Science – new course

Recent Professional Development

Three poster presentations with 3 students, Stephen Revilla, Rebecca Heard, and Tyler Carter, at 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Denver, CO, December 2011. Poster titles: Evaluation of Different Nutrient Medias on Population Growth of Tetrahymena pyriformis; Effect of Centrifugation on Viability of the Ciliated Protist Tetrahymena pyriformis; and Improvement of Absorbance Measurements of Tetrahymena pyriformis Using the Vital Stain Acridine Orange/Ethidium Bromide.

Project coordinator for Undergraduate Science Education and Research Institute at Maryville College, supervising 3 students in the cell biology lab, Summer, 2011.

Program Director for Department of Education/Funds for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education congressionally appropriated $300,000 grant to pilot the Undergraduate Science Education and Research Institute at Maryville College, 2011-2012